Cooking Recipe Candied Violets
Recipe Ingredients
1/2 c
-Water
1 c
Sugar, granulated
Almond extract;or rosewater
Fresh violets or
Fresh rose petals
Directions
These are decorations for desserts. Do NOT use African violets! Make a
syrup by stirring water into sugar in small saucepan. Boil till
slightly thickened; stir in almond extract to taste. Let syrup cool a
little.
Place the violets, a few at a time into syrup. Make sure that they
are completely covered. Remove from syrup and place on wax paper to
dry. If syrup gets hard, reheat, adding a little more water. MAKES: 1
cup syrup An alternative method of making candied violets is to coat
petals with lightly beaten egg white and sprinkle with fruit sugar.